DTS makes
the
Platinum SSD,
(at one time) the fastest 2.5" SATA 2.0 flash SSD. The Platinum SSD is
compatible with any OS that supports SATA and appears just like a regular hard
drive but with 40,000 random IOPS performance. It has orders of magnitude
better endurance than pure flash SSDs due to the write attenuation (opposite of
write amplication) which results from its large non volatile internal gigabyte
RAM cache.. Using the Platinum SSD from DTS, you can improve the performance of
many server applications significantly compared to using most other flash
SSDs. DTS was founded in 1996 and has facilities in Japan, US and Pakistan.

editor's comments:- September 2010 -
DTS made a dramatic entry
into the high performance hard disk market in
2008 with its
Platinum HDD - a 3.5"
hybrid drive
which integrated a hard
drive with an internal Gigabyte RAM cache. In 2009 the company used a
similar architecture to launch a 2.5"
fat flash SSD
- in which the bulk store was implemented by a conventional
flash SSD with an
internal SSD ASAP
controller transparently managing the performance boost from the fat cache. This
made it the fastest 2.5" drive (rated by
IOPS) in
2009.

But in 2010 - SSD
controller enhancements from companies like
SandForce and
Anobit made it possible
for 2.5" SSD oems
to get similar / better IOPS performance from flash SSDs using a
skinny
architecture without needing an additional external controller and memory.
These competing products had lower parts counts. lower power consumption, better
reliability and
lower cost - and therefore killed most of the market prospects for the
DTS SSD.

It remains to be seen whether the SSD market has a nuche for a
"super fat" 2.5" SSD - or in effect a 2.5"
RAM SSD. 3
manufacturers currently ship
3.5" RAM SSDs for
critical database speedups in which the high cost (compared to the
cost of flash SSDs)
is worthwhile - for lucky enterprise users who can relocate the bulk of their
hotspots into 4 to 8GB.